Russia on Tuesday denied to the UN any “deportation” on its soil of thousands of Ukrainian children since the invasion of Ukraine, of which kyiv, international justice and NGOs accuse it.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, which examines the Russian case as part of a regular meeting, called on Moscow on Monday to explain the “deportation allegations”.
“Since February 2022, the Russian Federation has not been involved in the deportation of Ukrainian citizens on its territory,” replied the head of the Russian delegation, Alexei Vovchenko, Russian Deputy Minister of Labor and Protection, on Tuesday. social. “About 3 million residents of Ukraine, including a number of children, were accepted into the Russian Federation. Most of the children came with their families or guardians, they were placed in temporary shelters or with relatives,” he said.
But he indicated that checks are underway concerning the situation of “more than 5,000 children”.